The corporate kings destroyed a once great brand through their marketing and financial shenanigans so perhaps it's appropriate that the old Rosemount winery in the Hunter Valley becomes wa storage depot for ammonium nitrate. Chemical company Orica has lodged a development application stating its intention to store up to 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at the winery site.

Upper Hunter Winemakers Association Treasurer Brett Keeping told the ABC there is a sense of nostalgia attached to the former landmark winery "given the great facility that that has been for the wine industry - the great brand it always was and if you go back 10 years it was a thriving workplace sending wine all over the world."

That ended some years ago and Orica will now use the site to store chemicals produced from its Newcastle plant before distributing them to coal mines in the Upper Hunter.

A further sign of the decline of the Hunter as a wine producing region comes with the decision of Tyrells to sell its 240 acre Glenbawn property to the Segenhoe horse stud. The winery will close its doors after this vintage with owner Bruce Tyrrell saying the interests of coal and horse breeding in the Upper Hunter have overtaken wine.

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